Now, of course I have to appoint human beings to office.

Well, I think that his qualifications ought to be presented to the Senate and go into the record, and that is one of the reasons why I have re-submitted his name.

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

I want them to be honest and conscientious and desirous of performing public service, but I cannot find any men who quite come up to that standard and I doubt if there are any in existence.

I shall take the oath of office tomorrow on a Bible that was given to me by my grandmother.

It will be opened at the first chapter of John, which happens to be the first chapter of the Bible that I can recall reading.

That was the family Bible to which I referred the other day.

My grandfather was ill for a long time before he passed away and I used to read that chapter of the Bible to him when I was a small boy not more than four or five years old.

They seem to think that if the farmer is going to be helped that means they are going to be injured.

And they don't come in themselves and say, 'I am dealing in farm produce.'

I have been going more particularly on my confidence in people that have made recommendations and not on my particular knowledge of the recommendations that have been made.

But there does seem to be a very determined opposition on the part of those who act as distributors, not all of them, but quite a number of them, to any assistance being rendered the farmer.